Category: Life

  • newborn essentials

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    as a second time mom that lives a fairly low tox life, these are my newborn essentials:

  • Easy pickled onions

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    these make a delicious topping, especially for Mexican food. I made some up for my son’s birthday party where we had nachos and tacos.

  • Healthier toddler/kids snacks

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    we all want to feed our kids the healthiest food possible, but we also don’t want to waste money buying or making things they won’t eat. With the way junk food is marketed towards kids these days, you need to get creative. Also, Organic packaged snacks can be very expensive. Here are some ideas of…

  • Christmas gifts for a toddler boy

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    I know as a mom, we want to buy so much for our kids for Christmas. If your kids are like my son, they play with only a small selection of their toys, and the rest just get thrown all over for us to pick up later. I’ve found in the past year that keeping…

  • 8 ways to make sourdough seem less complicated

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    The thing i hear the most from people about why they haven’t began sourdough is because they are intimidated, and they don’t know where to start. Sourdough is actually very simple once you figure out what you are doing through trial and error. Simple things that make sourdough not so complicated: have fun with it!…

  • how we cook a whole chicken

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    we raised and butchered 32 chickens this past summer, and kept them all whole for the freezer. There are many options to use the meat, even with keeping the chicken whole. our favorite way to cook a whole chicken is in the crockpot. It gives us enough chicken for two meals, and about 3 quart…

  • Traditional vs. home birth midwife prenatal care

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    after a not so great birth, and traumatic hospital stay and postpartum with our first, I wasn’t sure I wanted more kids. After I got more in depth in the holistic lifestyle, we decided on a home birth when we had our next child. I did lots of research, and we decided that was the…

  • Tips for raising meat chickens

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    although it was our first year raising meat chickens, we learned a lot from the experience. Here are some tips to help make the process easier. buy enough chicks to make it worth your time. You’re already doing all the work, so you might as well get enough chicks for you for the year, and…

  • Life after ditching our microwave

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    most anyone that is into natural living has heard that microwaves aren’t the best, or safest, way to reheat your food. I’ve read many different articles about the harmful radiation, decreasing the nutrients in your food, etc. I had been reading these things for a few months before we decided to ditch the microwave. we…

  • why we switched to raw milk

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    I was on my health journey for well over a year before we made the jump to raw milk. After a lot of research, we decided that it was right for our family. I was the type of kid who would put just enough milk in my cereal so that it was wet, and I…